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From: fish@aati.UUCP (William G. Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: UNIX for realtime
Keywords: UNIX, realtime
Message-ID: <449@aati.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 06:27:51 GMT
Organization: Analysis & Technology, New London, CT
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Why is "plain vanilla" UNIX considered inferior for realtime applications
and what can be done to improve its realtime capabilities?  I've seen
sync system calls cause a UCSF RTP (Real Time Process system call)
process to miss deadlines.  Must a realtime process kill /etc/update?

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